On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:53:10AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 07/25/2012 08:14 AM, Tim Bell wrote: > > > > How are the other distributions splitting the OpenStack packages ? > > > > Are there benefits in aligning with Ubuntu ? > > So I had a look... > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/precise/nova/precise/view/head:/debian/control > > That splits nova into 26 sub packages, > which seems a bit excessive to me and > you don't get the space distribution advantage > at that level of splitting for example. > > But the important thing is that there are mid level packages > in ubuntu that align fairly closely, with the Fedora proposed split. I.E. > > Ubuntu Fedora > -------------------------------------- > python-nova python-nova > nova-compute openstack-nova-compute > nova-volume openstack-nova-volume > nova-network openstack-nova-network > nova-cert openstack-nova-cert > nova-objectstore openstack-nova-objectstore > nova-api openstack-nova-api > nova-console openstack-nova-console > > The last 2 might not map closely, anyway... > > I suppose we could rename the new Fedora nova packages to > remove the "openstack-" prefix to minimize mapping config like: > > http://www.puppetcookbook.com/posts/packages-with-different-name-per-distro.html > > On the other hand there are always going to be > packaging differences like this, and the > config to handle this is well supported and > can be isolated in one place as shown at the URL above. > > For example Fedora's openstack-glance corresponds to "glance" in debian. > Also having an openstack- prefix seems a bit more consistent to me. > For example there is the openstack-dashboard package in ubuntu > rather than just "dashboard". > > So I'm leaning towards keeping the proposed package naming/structure, > given that the mapping is easy would need to be done anyway? I think I'm in favour of keeping the 'openstack-' prefix on package names too. I like your proposed split, though several of these pacakges might disappear when we move to Grizzly if network/volume stuff gets split out into a separate project Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud
